id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,focuses
36753,"Use system fonts for a faster, more native-feeling admin",helen,,"When a visual and small screen admin refresh was introduced in 3.8 (by way of the feature plugin MP6), the admin font was changed to Open Sans to better complement the redesigned vector iconography. This change was not without its bumps or controversy, notably around extended character sets and that it is loaded from Google Fonts for a variety of reasons.
I believe we have reached a point where we can go back to system fonts for a faster, more native-feeling admin experience. Via mattmiklic (aka MT):
> Open Sans is no longer necessary. I originally introduced it into Core via MP6 because there were not good system fonts common to all platforms at the time. In the years since, Windows, Android, OS X, iOS, Firefox OS, and various flavors of Linux have all gotten their own (good) system UI fonts.
For more on the feature project: https://make.wordpress.org/core/features/font-natively/",task (blessed),closed,normal,4.6,Administration,,normal,fixed,needs-screenshots has-patch,,ui